Spyro: Year of the Dragon Prototype (April 25th 2000) - Introduction

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Published on April 17, 2021 9:46:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSyqDKfuSA

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Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000)

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Several levels (Sunny Villa, Molten Crater, Crawdad Farm, Spike's Arena) are all accessible using level warp cheats. See the TCRF documentation for more details.

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This is a preview build dated April 25th, over four months before the final NTSC-U Rev 0 date of September 14th 2000.

I'll let the footage speak for itself, but this seems to match the version used at E3 and in a number of previews, including the IGN preview.

Note that while the files have modification dates of April 5th, written on the disc is a date of April 25th. Sometimes these file modification dates don't update correctly between builds, so determining the true build date is difficult. Due to the lack of a primary volume modification date in this version I've opted to describe this build as April 25th, but take it with a pinch of salt.

A minor correction - turns out the purple skybox is actually just Glimmer's loading skybox! In fact, while all levels are set to use the Glimmer skybox in this build, all of the Spyro 2 loading skyboxes are present (in fact, the part of the WAD that contains these skyboxes is byte-for-byte identical to how it is in Spyro 2). They can be seen by changing the values within the skybox array (80060ED0) as I demonstrate in another video.

TCRF - https://tcrf.net/Proto:Spyro:_Year_of_the_Dragon/April_25th,_2000_build
Hidden Palace - https://hiddenpalace.org/Spyro:_Year_of_the_Dragon_(Apr_25,_2000_prototype%29

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